Maimonides Children’s Hospital welcomed 300 former patients of their Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and their families for an annual reunion event at the hospital. The block party took place outside the hospital and featured food, games, entertainment, raffles, and more. The former patients, many of whom were some of the NICU’s highest risk cases, and their families, spoke about their experiences being treated at Maimonides and receiving the care that allowed them to survive despite being born prematurely and with life-threatening conditions. Part of the Maimonides Health system, Maimonides Children’s Hospital is the only children’s hospital and pediatric trauma center in Brooklyn.
“The patients being cared for at the Maimonides NICU are some of the highest-risk newborns in the City, so treating them requires advanced training, compassion, and empathy for the parents who put their children’s lives in our hands,” said Alok Bhutada, MD, Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at Maimonides Children’s Hospital. “It was such an inspiration seeing them doing so well, because when they exit the ward as babies you don’t know how they’re doing but seeing them as older children is a powerful stimulant to continue.”
Maimonides Children’s Hospital is a New York State-designated Regional Perinatal Center (RPC), in recognition of excellence in delivering maternity and neonatal care. The NICU provides critical care for newborns in a state-of-the-art facility, which is equipped to offer advanced procedures such as therapeutic hypothermia and video electroencephalogram (EEG). In-house coverage by a board-certified neonatologist is provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for all high-risk deliveries and care in the NICU.
To see event highlights, visit:
- “Maimonides Medical Center celebrates NICU reunion and new facility” Bronx News 12 (June 12, 2022)
- “Together again: Maimonides welcomes former NICU babies for patient-team ‘family’ reunion,” The Brooklyn Paper (June 27, 2022)
